Bette Midler Quotes
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
Quotes to Explore
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.
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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
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The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
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The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
